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“A watch-and-learn moment”: Marshall Islands ratifies historic UN ocean treaty
SYDNEY/MAJURO, Friday 14 March 2025 — The Republic of Marshall Islands has become one of the first Pacific nations to ratify the historic Global Ocean Treaty, sending a powerful message…
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Rainbow Warrior arrives in Marshall Islands to call for nuclear and climate justice on 40th anniversary of Rongelap evacuation
MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS, Tuesday 11 March 2025 – Greenpeace flagship vessel the Rainbow Warrior was welcomed back to the Marshall Islands today, marking the start of a six-week mission around…
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‘Warriors for Justice’: On anniversary of Castle Bravo nuclear test, Greenpeace calls for justice and reparations from United States
SYDNEY/MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS, Saturday 1 March 2025 — 71 years since the most powerful nuclear weapons tests ever conducted were unleashed across the Marshall Islands by the United States, Greenpeace…
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More powerful than Hiroshima: how the largest nuclear weapons test ever built a nation of leaders in the Marshall Islands.
71 years ago, on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, a nuclear bomb with the codename “Castle Bravo”, exploded with an energy of 15 megatons. The mushroom cloud reached 40…
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“Stunning dedication”: first ocean sanctuary in Marshall Islands announced
FRIDAY 31 JANUARY 2025 — The Republic of the Marshall Islands has announced its first marine protected area in the Pacific Ocean, a “stunning dedication to ocean protection for Pacific…
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Evacuation of Rongelap, Marshall Islands
In 1985 the Rongelap people turned to Greenpeace for help. They asked that Greenpeace send a vessel to evacuate them from their home and move them to nearby Mejatto Island. Greenpeace sent the Rainbow Warrior to Rongelap at the request of its people and in May 1985 moved them to Mejatto Island.
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What started in the Pacific is now the world’s largest climate justice campaign!
Pasifika activists are making history with their world-first campaign demanding countries be held legally responsible to protect their people from the impacts of the climate crisis.
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‘Fundamentally flawed’: Australian climate case submission to ICJ undermines Pacific neighbours
THE HAGUE/SYDNEY, Tuesday 3 December 2024 — In response to Australia’s oral submission to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as part of a historic, Pacific-led climate justice case, the…
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Historic climate hearings begin as Pacific-led campaign reaches world’s highest court
THE HAGUE/SYDNEY, Monday 2 December 2024 — The historic Pacific-led campaign to take the world’s biggest problem of climate change to the world’s highest court reaches a pivotal moment today…
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‘We will fight’: Bitter disappointment in Baku must catalyse action on the road to COP30 in Belem
BAKU, Sunday 24 November 2024 — The COP29 climate talks have ended in disappointment today, with the most climate-impacted countries exasperated by what is widely seen as a grossly inadequate finance commitment and failure to progress commitments on fossil fuel phase out.